Jimi Hendrix was not only a musician he was a magician

There's a good story about Pete Townsend after seeing Jimi's first performance of the night in England, he was walking out, Eric Clapton was coming in, Pete was looking down, shaking his head, Clapton says to him "What's the matter Pete? Was he that bad?" Townsend says to Clapton, "No Eric, he's that fucking good!"

I was 23 years old in 67 and just returned from 2 consective tours in Vietnam.....still surviving to this day. My name is Joe

"All Along The Watchtower" by Jimi... a must!

Plays with his tongue...plays behind his back...crazy chords...Jimi is the best.

I'm a guitar teacher and honestly, I've always been surprised most of my young African American students don't know who he is, what he looks like, and whhat he did. But I'm glad reaction videos like this will change this.

I'm kind of surprised how you youngsters are impressed by Jimi. Didn't expect that from the rap/hip hop generation. You guys do have a wide range of music appreciation. Congrats.

I saw Jimi in 1969 when I was 15. My mother told my older brother that he couldn't go unless he took me. My first live concert - 15 rows back and centre. First time to smoke marijuana and see people naked. And Jimi closed the show with an incredible set. Don't even have words to adequately describe the experience. And yes, I agree with you. Anyone who had the chance to see Jimi live was really lucky... blessed.

I was 15 years old in 1967. I saw him live 3 times (Hunter College, Singer Bowl, and Lincoln Center), and I met him and The Buddy Miles Express, at The Village Gate night club. When I see you react to Jimi's music, Youngblood, it warms my old heart. Seeing him live REALLY was an experience! It was visceral, it was otherworldly, it was a revelation! Jimi was investigating the healing powers of music just before he died( a day I will never forget!). He wasn't just a supreme artist, he was a prophet. The electric guitar has been a different instrument since him. I'm so happy to see young brothers like you getting into Jimi. And yes He did play the guitar upside down!!! Talk about violating the guitar, at the end of this show he burned the guitar, smashed it to pieces, and threw it to the crowd!

Ahhhhh, Jimi. The Godfather of all music influences. 🤘🔥🤘

I love that Jimi can sing this well while chewing gum....

I was 31 in 1967 , saw him live in 1958 when he had just got out of the army. I was at a bar with my friends, we had just come back from Korea. Segregation was still in place so it was weird to see this black man playing an electric guitar on stage in a bar full of white folk. I just remember being surprised at how good he was and how he was playing the guitar backwards , well it seemed to me. He sure knew how to draw a crowd. That night ,after his performance, I went up to him . I said “hey son, what’s your name” he said “it’s James Marshall, but you can call me jimi, Jimi Hendrix “ i told all my friends and family about him . Went to all his small time shows at local bars and in a few years he just blew up! We used to have this thing where whenever we’d see each other at the small times shows, he would look in my direction while performing and I’d give him any signal I wanted and each signal meant to do a trick with his guitar. Whether that was playing it behind his back , his teeth, or he would figure something out. He called me his signal caller. That was probably the coolest moment of my life. Of course, as he became more and more famous, trying to get his attention or just talk to him was almost impossible. Still one day about 2 months before he passed, I was at one of his concerts sitting at the bar, just drinking a beer enjoying the music. On his last song he looked in my direction and gave his “signal caller” a shout out and my face lit up with excitement ! My god, Mary and Joseph . That night will never be forgotten. Everyone cheered, and greeted me. That would be the last time I saw Jimi Hendrix live or at all for that matter. RIP Mr. Marshall

I was 7. But i had a brother 6 years older. Heard all his music!❤❤

Yes, Jimi was left handed and had to play and tune his guitar backwards. Hey Joe was written by Billy Roberts. Jimi is my favorite guitarist. I saw him in S.F. when I was 14 in 1968. My favorite albums of his are Axis Bold As Love and Electric Ladyland. You can't find much of his stuff on You Tube, so it's well worth it to purchase those albums for yourself. They will blow your mind. btw, both Jimi and SRV could play behind their backs and with their teeth. At this same show (Monterey Pop Festival), Jimi lit his guitar on fire while playing "Wild Thing."

I was 22yrs old in 1967 and yes I saw Jimi live in San Francisco .I am surprised all you young folks have never heard him

I was 17 in 67 Jimi was the greatest then still rock to his cds at 68 now thanks for the memories yes he was a left handed player everything you just said is true I'm glad to see you young people pay homage to our brother from the past great reaction my brother 😎👍👍👍

I was born 1963. Have two musician Friends WHO Saw Jimi live! Barely recovered!

Saw Jimi live in San Antonio in 1967 ZZ Top opening act. It was everything you'd ever thought. However, about 4 years earlier I saw him playing with Ike and Tina Turner Review before he was famous his chops and upside down white Strat caught my attention....and his huge processed pompadour... Wild.

I turned 9 about four months after this performance, so I never got to see Jimi live. During my first week of eighth grade my Social Studies teacher assigned each of us to cut out an article from that day's newspaper and bring it in, and I brought Jimi's obituary. The other kids laughed, but the teacher (who was also the Art teacher) understood when I explained that we'd just lost a once-in-a-lifetime artist, and that was much more important to me than whatever crap was going on in the Middle East that particular day. A couple kids came up to me afterwards and told me they thought I'd done something cool - that's the last time THAT ever happened. I used to run with a woman who was ten years older than me. She was from New York, and I was so jealous of her concert history. She was friends with one of the ushers at the Fillmore East, and he'd let her in to all the shows for free. She's part of the audience cheering on live recordings by Humble Pie, Santana, Frank Zappa and The Allman Brothers Band, among others. She got to see Jimi Hendrix two shows a night, six nights in a row, with no admission cost. And the next summer, she saw him again at Woodstock, along with lots of other bands she'd already seen at the Fillmore. And then, on New Year's Eve with the Band Of Gypsies. One day, she casually let it drop that she saw The Beatles at Shea Stadium. As if I wasn't already burning with envy. Rrrrr.

THE MAN !!!!! do yourself a favor....get yourself a dvd of his complete Monterey set. MASTERFUL!!! i even prefer this to his woodstock set. given the whole story behind this concert, it's jsut incredible. as for hendrix playing upside down, no...not true. many people say that but he took a right handed guitar and strung it for lefty playing. you can see in pictures (the fatter/lower strings are farther from the ground....youcan also see when he plays...which notes sound in which hand/finger positions

For some reason I often find myself crying when I see him play, I don't even know why. I think it's because we get to witness one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. Nina Simone has the same effect on me for the same reason. We are privileged to be able to witness these recorded events of musicians who are SO advanced, that we feel like we are touched by God.

Correct on Jimi playing right handed guitar upside down and being self taught. Jimi and SRV...unbelievable guitar playing and showmanship. Jimi Hendrix was so far ahead of his time it’s difficult to wrap your mind around it. And what’s funny every guitar player during Jimi’s career knew he was so much more innovative then rest of them. It’s like they knew he was the future of what playing the guitar could be and what it would sound like. RIP Jimi.

It's tragic that more of Jimi's music isn't available on KZfaq for listeners and reactors. He would be blowing people away left and right. I'm glad I got to grow up listening to his music when it was new.

Yes he did play a right-handed guitar left handed. It's on film. I once saw someone with a shirt that said: "For the Lord thy God so loved playing guitar, He created Jimi Hendrix".

I was eight years old. The music of that time has stood up to time.

The Beatles released "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and the same day it was released they went to see Jimi play and he played their whole album after only listening to it for a few hours

Hey Jay Ray, love the reaction to Jimi Hendrix, really genuine and not going on stupid with the reaction. He did take a right handed guitar and play it left handed, would love to think he left the strings the same as a right handed guitar, meaning he played the guitar chords back to front or upside down but don’t think he did, he re-strung the guitar, still amazing! Regarding being self taught, that is definitely true, from 11 or 12 years old, he’s a musical genius, he invented his own guitar chord, called the ‘’Hendrix Chord’’ React to ‘’All Along The Eatchtower’’, this is a song the Folk Song Writer Bob Dylan did, he hadn’t even realised it and they got Himi to cover it, it is like chalk and cheese, make a comparison, Bob’s is good but Jimi’s is out of this world, Bless You Bro, 👊🏻👀

I was 7. Back then I didn’t have any idea about Jimi. But I did about 8 years later. I was the oldest child so I grew up listening to my parents’ stuff. But Jimi couldn’t be hidden from me. Oh man, that guitar. He was musical genius. Now I’m 60. (Omg really?) Anyway, I might be “old”, lol. But man...

I saw Jimi six months before he died at the Forum at 14 yrs old. It changed a 14yr year black guitar player's life. There will be anyone who has been as been the number one influence on guitar players worldwide.

I love Jimi and was 6 in `67. Got my first Beatles album that year, Rubber Soul! My sister was at Monterey PoP!

I was 7, and my mom told me I had to wait til I was 9, then she would get me a portable transistor radio for my birthday! Still, I could hear Jimi all over my sister's radio ;-) RIP Jimi Miss You

That is true , had to play sight hand guitar and he turned it upside down. Greatest guitarist ever!

8 years old in 67. Jimi was like from another planet! No one like him trust me.

Jimi was pure genius and has had an undeniable lasting influence on generations

This is what genius looks like. This man revolutionised the guitar. So many techniques they use now came straight from Jimi. And he only started playing relatively late, about 15 or 16. There are players now who play faster or harder or whatever but it just doesn't sound as good as jimi. And even forgetting the guitar he also had an incredible voice. If someone this talented emerged today the world would lose their minds over it. But what I find amazing is that he had to leave America and come to Britain to make a name for himself. How could they not see in the states what this guy had. I guess it probably had more to do with the backwards obsession with race that a lot of ppl had and still have to this day. But when he came to England they didn't give a damn what colour he was, all they cared about was being mesmerised by this man's talent. The world is full of amazing guitar players. And then there's hendrix.

So many groovy songs try to watch Jimi perform

I was 17 in 1967. Jimi was an instant guitar god for us! Peace

I saw Jimi in '68 at SMU. I just wish I had not been so stoned so I could remember more of it.

Yes he did on the guitar!!

Effortless is the best way to describe Jimi.

Jim I Hendrix is the GOAT! Period. He was left handed and strung the guitar upside down. Like your reaction and analysis!!! #NewSubscriber I was 7 and never got to see him play live he died in 1070 when I was 10

I was seven years old in 1967. That year was Canadas' 100th. Year of confederation and everyone came to Expo67 in Montreal for festivities which kicked off our touring industry. My oldest brother saw Hendrix in Montreal in 68.

Jimi played with the Isley Brothers for a while in the early sixties. They knew they had someone special playing with them.

I saw Jimi open for the Monkees (yes!) about 6 weeks after this. I was 7 years old.

I turned 11 years old in 1967. We didn't have an FM radio back then, and the only AM station I could get on my transistor radio certainly didn't play his music. I would have been in high school before I started hearing and enjoying his music.

Jimi (who was very humble off stage) was once asked, "What's it like to be the world's greatest guitar player?" Jimi replied... "I dunno man, go ask Rory Gallagher!" 😎

Jimi was self taught couldn’t read or write music but he would play for hours in bathroom cause he liked the acoustic effects! He would play forever till he figured it out!

Love your thoughts on music. So true.

And to think he was only 27 years old unbelievable.

Prince...Joy in Repetition Live.....monster guitar solo and slappin Bass

Jimi played an ordinary right handed guitar left handed, in other words upside down. When asked about this, he said that he had learned to play that way.

Jimi Hendrix a goat

LOLOL!!!!! THATS AWESOME !!!! "Jimi should've went to jail for this performance" !!!LMAO i've heard a lot of comments on this vid but that's the best one !!!!

I think this was the same festival that Janis Joplin did “Ball and Chain” that made her famous. But this video is iconic, it’s a piece of American history. And I was 1 in 1967, so i was only 3 when he went to music heaven so I never got to see him live. Just in videos. “Ooh that bass”...side note...the record company built his band “The Experience” Noel Redding was a very accomplished studio bass player and Mitch Mitchell still to this day is one of my favourite drummers. Whoever put those two guys together with Jimi knew what they were doing. Jimi inspired thousands of guitar players. Anytime you watch Stevie Ray Vaughn it’s apparent who his influences were, and Jimi is at the top of his left. And yes, he took a standard Fender Stratocaster and flipped it upside down and restrung it. He was playing guitar for Little Richard’s band when he was only 15 years old. Jimi was known as the “Master of the Stratocaster”.

and to this day even the pro guitar players we got cant even do what he did he the king of bluea i know they say bb king is i love him to butt my god jimi wow

Jimi, 1967, came on stage to Cream. Asked to jam. Noone dared! THE best of THE best! He did His thing! Eric Clapton layed down His guitar. Backstage, trying to roll a joint, Said: Is he really that fucking Good??

I was 17 in 1967. Saw Hendrix live twice.

Jimi Played constantly usually falling asleep and waking up his guitar on his chest ,many found him like that in the morning when they went to wake him up. he also suffered a lot during child hood being poor and having to deal with things along the way not fitting in,,miss match clothes or not fitting him rite etc. etc.. You could not pay me to be jimi only 27 when he left , he was ripped off also finically majorly like probably 75 percent, at the end his own manager had him killed to collect the insurance since he was not going to re sign with him set up held down and drowned in wine etc etc its on youtube the video true story some where. he was a beautiful person an amazing beautiful person and knew he was not going to live beyond 27

Oh how we miss him

i was 13/14 in 1967. yep, i've seen jimi live.

Now you know why there will never be another Jimi Hendrix!!!

What can you say? Jimi Hendrix is a guitar god, but Jimi was so humble. He never liked people praising him. Watch his interview on the Dick Cavett show. People always told him he was the GOAT and he would literally blush and try to change the subject. He would heap praise on other guitar players like Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) and said he thought Terry Kath (Chicago) was the greatest guitar player he ever saw.

A lot of folks say SRV is the GOAT. This was his inspiration. When Hendrix first appeared in London, Pete Townsend was there. After watching he called Eric Clapton and said "We're f&cked!". You just watched the greatest ever. OD'd at 27. RIP

I am old but that was still before my time. Born in "69 YEAH

1967 I was 9 years old. It would be a while before I was ready for Jimi. It would be about 2 years after that I would buy my first album. Iron Butterfly. In a gadda da vida. That was the gateway though.

You didn't see later in the performance when he set the guitar on fire!

Hi! I was 10 in 67, unfortunately I live in the wrong country on the other side of the world !!Lol! I'm from Down Under! I actually wasn't into heavier rock when I was younger, however my older brother was! He turned 13 in 67! Hope you continue to enjoy sixties and seventies music! I'm not a huge fan of eighties music, however some of the songs I liked! I'm enjoying a lot of this music second time around! Thanks for reacting! Also want to say you are much more educated about some of this classic music than some of the other reactors! Good on you! Stay safe! Greetings from Australia!

U wanna see amazingness (not saying this wasn't) but if u can ever get a hold of jimi live at woodstock, jimi live at Monterey pop, jimi live at Berkeley... Def look those up Machine gun is amazing live and his cover of Johnny B. Goode ia ridiculous. Everything jimi has ever done is fantastic. Mitch Mitchell (jimis drummer) is also very underrated.

That' True.what you said is on point.Jimi spent time and played with the Isley Brothers , on your time check out Ernie Isley a student of his , he is closes thing to him.

I know I'm way behind everybody else as far as reacting to this reaction or watching it cuz I see that it's pretty old but I was 10 years old in 1967!! When Jimmy passed in 1970 I was only 13 so I hadn't yet been able to even go to a concert and unfortunately was never able to see Jimi Hendrix Live!!

Jimi Hendrix- Voodoo Child woodstock performance, look at that video 🔥

hendrix =god , never catch a lesson totaly wild

Yeah everything you said is about right (: Hendrix was the absolute Sun Fire Shit that I think he was probably 3 decades ahead of his time with his guitar skills (: The first half man half guitar period God Titan of it period (:

I was 10 yrs old in '67. My older sister bought his first album 'Are You Experienced', didn't like it and gave it to me. I loved it and still have it to this day. Met his engineer Eddie Kramer a few years back and had him sign it.

i was 22 and just got out of the Army.💚🎵 the only ones i seen live was paul revere and the raiders and Wilson Pickett.

Jimi Hendrix was a god on the guitar,No I wasn’t born 1967,I became aware of him in my late teens,Hendrix will be heard by future generations when we are all gone,that is how great he was and is,kids younger than you where t shirts with his image,there are endless vids of zoomer kids playing his music 🎸🎸🎸,Jimi Hendrix was left handed and played his guitar upside down,as a kid he played with broom like a guitar wearing it out till his dad bought him a guitar..

They broke the mold whith Jimi..

Actually, at the time of his death, he was the King of Rock&Roll at the time, not Elvis. I'm not exaggerating. He had all the British guitar players blown away. Plus he could make radio hits as good as anyone if not better. There is not enough that can be said about the greatest and the most "electrifying electric guitarist of all time. Period.

Jimi was right handed but played left with a right handed guitar. He was also a paratrooper before the guitar

1967 was flower power and hippie era. Protests against the vietnam war. Pot and acid were big and rock music.

He did use a right-handed guitar and turned it upside down, but he restrung it properly with the big E string on top.

The god father of electric guitar in my opinion

Great Reaction and yes he should have got locked up for that one! A guitar Genius!

"Jimi should've went to jail for this performance" lmao

I was 5yrs old. We were stationed in Ethiopia Africa then

I grew up listening to Jimi and I was always a fan. I've read that he brought a guitar with him everywhere and even slept with a guitar. It was like a part of him. I guess that's why he was so good!

Great reaction bro much love man keep em co I g !

Four years old knew was a super star from older "SISTER'S" He swapped the strings around normal

He played a right handed strat upside down but restrung it so the strings were normally set up

This is the best rendition of this song, imo. I was one year old :)

Fun fact about Jimmy Page and the rest of the UK guitar "gods"... when Jimi played over there, he made all of them question why they even picked up a guitar. Interview after interview, from Page to the lead guitarist from Creme (can't recall his name right now) all said Jimi had them all shook.

last song the band played at this show, hendrix lit his guitar on fire, and then proceeded to smash it on stage and on this amp lol

granted hendrix is from another planet but people dont appreciate how good this drummer is. yes he was left handed, took a right handed guitar and put the strings on in reverse. i did the same tho i suck. it works you just have to tune it a lot more often.

Yes, left handed so the strings were upside down. Legend

Jimi always restrung his guitar to accommodate his left hand.

I was 5. My Ma was at Woodstock; we lived in Marlboro NY.

I was -21 in 67'.. my dad introduced me to Jimi and so many others when I was 4 or 5. Timeless music

Red House...machine gun..Bleeding heart...the true Jimi feeling...when the guitar speaks...my daughter is Going to give a speach on Jimi...tomorrow in English class...ive lend her books recordings...I Say, go for it

Niela Miller "Baby, Please Don't Go To Town 1962" (Hey Joe) Check out! Niela Miller says she wrote "Hey Joe" and Billy Roberts stole the song from her. I think Billy was Niela's boyfriend at the time. Some say "Hey Joe" is a traditional song. Unknown who wrote it.

Yes Hendrix played a right handed Stratocaster guitar upside down he also reversed the strings. Reason being left-handed guitars were scarce back then hard to get